Hunter's Canvas

Bill O'Reilly's Producer

See more funny videos at CollegeHumor

Flight of the Conchords + Roller Skates = awesome

Super Bowl XLII Recap!

Eric and Aldo at Super Bowl XIX, originally uploaded by darsys.

OK, so until a couple weeks ago, I didn't understand football at all.  I didn't understand the mechanics of the game and never really understood why people get so fanatical about it.  But I recently moved to Providence (home of the Patriots) from New York, my home town and a city I love dearly, and I now realize that it's really just about pride.  It's totally silly and pretty meaningless in the scheme of things, but I was proud to be a Giants fan last night (even when they were down a bunch of points with only minutes to go) and it's mostly because I'm proud to be from New York. Really kind of silly.

It was a very exciting game to watch.  And who can't enjoy a tear-filled interview with a wide receiver named Plaxico? That was certainly more entertaining than the ads this year.  Overall they were awful, with two great standouts:

And:

So I'm basically a sucker for anthropomorphic animation, and now football as well.  Go Giants!

You just never know who's a homophobe these days

Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs received an email from a male fan professing his "man-crush."  Mike proceeds to demonstrate how homophobic he is. Via Joe. My. God.

Why the hell are all these people on strike?

Lots of strikes going on write now in the streets of NY and LA.  Though I am not too sure of the validity of the Broadway stagehands' strike, I do think that the WGA writers have a good reason to strike; they should be compensated for their work published online.  Here's a great YouTube video created by the writers of the Daily Show:

Via BoingBoing

Now Murdoch can own everything!

Chairman of the FCC Kevin J. Martin, has proposed major changes to the current media ownership rules essentially opening up the floodgates for the likes of Rupert Murdoch to own pretty much all the media outlets in a given city.  Right now, you cannot own a newspaper and a TV or radio station in the same city.  Probably a good thing considering the state of mainstream media at the moment.

One of the things that really piss me off about this is the timetable: he's looking to have the change go into as early as December; not nearly enough time to get a real sense of whether or not this is the right thing to do.  I just feel this is so obviously about greed and money and power, that it can't possibly be for the greater good of society.  But who cares about society these days anyway?

If you are as nervous about these proposed changes as I am, you can send an email to your congressman asking him/her to hold hearings on the subject.  And for your entertainment, play Whack-a-Murdoch here.

Stephen Colbert announces he's running for president; let's watch Will Farrell

Stephen Colbert's running for President. This should be interesting.  I think it will be great to have someone in the ring who tells it like it is, but it's a little sad that the presidential elections have become such a circus, and a mockery of what the elections should be.

In celebration of his announcement, let's watch some videos!  Since I don't think Colbert is that funny (with the exception of his InDecision 2008 tagline: Don't F*ck This Up America), I'm posting some oldies but goodies.

Will Farrell as GW:

 

Funny outtakes from a Lava commercial:

Unnecessary Censorship from Jimmy Kimmel:

Motorola + Gondry = $800k down the (boob)tube

So Motorola, through San Francisco shop Cutwater, spent $800K on a TV commercial to launch the new Razr2.  It was directed by Michel Gondry and, like many of his films/commercials/music videos, it was beautifully shot and produced.  But will it sell any phones?

Moto doesn't think so.  It has decided not to air the Gondry spot, and is instead airing this spot produced by the Beijing and New York Ogilvy offices:

It's an unfortunate series of events.  It sounds as though the campaign wasn't fully thought through from the beginning, and the agency sold Moto on a cool TV ad, but was not able in the end to bring the creative to other (necessary) mediums like print, DM, interactive, etc. 

So a good spot dies, Moto screws up their Razr2 launch, agency gets fired, we all move on.

Do you love Tina Fey as much as I do?

Well here's your chance to ask her a question about 30Rock or SNL or her recent AMEX ad.

30Rock was renewed for another season, and premieres October 4th at 8:30.  Here are 10 very funny clips.  Finally, some good comedy on TV. 

Go Tina!